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Opposition to repressive Canadian legislation grows
February 26, 2015"The NDP has identified several serious problems in C-51, including that the bill will give broad new powers to CSIS without enhancing oversight."
Read moreGOP House panel OK’s partisan rewrite of education law
February 20, 2015"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."
Read moreToday in labor history: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
February 5, 2015The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families."
Read moreBuried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials
December 10, 2014UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.
Read moreSan Francisco supervisors pass first-ever Retail Workers Bill of Rights
December 3, 2014The pioneering Retail Workers Bill of Rights will give an estimated 40,000 hourly workers greater stability in their schedules and hours.
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